froze to death

Olga Chekanova, 24, went from nightclub at 4am, and taxi driver dropped her 200 metres from destination.

Tragedy as teens walked in biting cold rather than wait for bus.

Oksana and Alexander Urusov were told they needed more papers to fly with dog Tori, so they dumped her outside the terminal.

Tomsk mountaineers had radioed for help but rescuers failed to reach them in time.

New details emerged on Thursday about the frozen corpses of two babies found in the storage freezer of a shop in Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

Mother goes in search of Bogdan when she wakes at 6am, and finds he has wandered out of house in middle of night into fierce frost.

Elsewhere in Primorsky region 94,000 people are still without electricity, 18,000 are without heating.

Kissing and hugging to survive, hallucinations, fearing their 4 children would be orphans, giving up, cuddling in the Arctic snow to die...then a miracle.

Cats and dogs are left at the mercy of extremely cold weather reaching -50C with no proper animal winter shelter in Yakutsk.

The two fled on foot in minus 35C rather than stay with the men in remote hut in the taiga in Sakha Republic.